MatDz wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:33 pm I hope Dudleya didn't win class 31 (Unless it counts as both Crassula and Echeveria )

It's the same plant as Class 32, 2nd just from the other side, so almost certainly not in the wrong class.

Yes - in the sense that the Society has one every month on https://bcss.org.uk/ it'll be in one of the 'featured' tiles. However, I haven't, and nobody else has, started threads in this section each month. There's nothing to stop anybody doing so if they've anything to say about a genus. I can't say...

I doubt they have any books on cacti at all!
Can't think what your book could be though.

See https://www.cactuspro.com/lecture/Britt ... 46.en.html

Apparently (I haven't seen the first description), Jorge Meyrán named the plant after George Lindsay and his wife . lindsayi - either at species or subspecies level - is, therefore, an error to be corrected, to lindsayorum. I've killed two plants through not keeping it warm enough over winter, I thi...

I think there's room for us to discuss how we might judge plant differently.

Named after Alonso García Luna.

1% is suitable for use as a mouthwash so 3% isn't going to do you much harm if you splash it on (though I wouldn't want to breathe a mist of it). I can't say whether it's any good at killing mealies.

Eric, have you thrown away the dead flowers yet? I'm curious to see how they look now. My related tricho flowered a few days before yours and I noticed the dead flowers went black and are still quite fleshy. Here's a photo with a E. mamillosa alongside (which flowered at around the same time) - it q...

Topic: Martin Lowry - Lobivia Time: Tuesday 18 July 2023 at 7.30pm (BST) Meeting ID: 841 9095 6189 Passcode: bcss Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84190956189?pwd=bTFtVG1CUlVEU2d1NnhKMmltaUVSUT09 We are very pleased to welcome back Martin Lowry to talk to the BCSS. Martin is one of the le...